26-Year-old Daughter Died Because She Feared Medical Cost
“After my husband lost his job of 13 years due to outsourcing, we had to leave California,” remembers Marlena Machol of Silver City, N.M.. “Our daughter Elizabeth decided to stay at her job in California. Although her employers had promised to look into employee health insurance, they had not done so yet, so we told her if she had to go to the doctor we would pay for it.
“We had been sending a payment to the doctor every month, trying to sojourn ahead of her health needs, while paying hundreds every month to an insurance company for a policy for us. Some months later, Elizabeth said she’d been awfully tired, but attributed it to a latest move, great hours at work, and her cat Bert waking her up. I told her she ought to go to the doctor, but she didn’t want to cost us if she didn’t have to. I made her potential to go if she didn’t feel better soon.
“I liking I could have seen her in yourself; perhaps I would enjoy known something was in the end fail and I would have bewitched her to the doctor perfect away. Days later, my husband and I were ready to head back to Arizona from a convention, and we stopped to call our son. He was watching the concern, and told us Elizabeth had been taken to the sanitarium. We called the hospital; they told us we ought to step down there as quickly as we could. We knew it was serious and we diverted to California.
“Elizabeth outwardly had an undiagnosed understanding condition. She never regained consciousness. Surrounded by all her brothers, brothers-in-law, her sister, niece, and many, many friends, my appealing Elizabeth died two days later - the broad daylight after her 26th birthday. Bert now lives with us.”
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